The UN Environment Assembly is due to take place very soon, which is expected to bring together the political leaders of a large number of countries. And ahead of the event, more than 70 major businesses and financial institutions released a statement calling for a massive, comprehensive and legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. It is noteworthy that the application was officially approved by such giants as Coca-Cola Company, Mondelēz, Mondi, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, TOMRA, Unilever and others.
At the end of the last year, quite a lot of discussion was generated by the decision of France to ban plastic packaging for a large number of fruits and vegetables. Opponents of this decision base their arguments on the fact that already a huge amount of food ends up in a dump, and without protective packaging, lots of vegetables and fruits will hardly even appear on the shop’s shelves.
The largest manufacturer of cellulose products, the Swedish-Finnish company Stora Enso has recently presented its latest ecological development in the field of protective and thermal packaging to the world community. These are two types of wood-based foams that are completely recyclable or compostable.
Advent calendars have already become a part of our lives as an invariable attribute of children's expectation of the New Year and Christmas. In other countries, this tradition has been going on for many years. There are many kinds of advent calendars. But the most popular are the so-called "sweet" advents, in which sweet surprises are hidden behind a bright picture and small windows.
Tesco, one of the largest European retailers and manufacturers, has announced the launch of the line of spray cleaning products in reusable packaging. It will be the company's own product and will go on sale in the brand's supermarkets next week.
We all love to burst air bubbles in bubble wrap, which is often used for secondary packaging when transporting various goods. The popular antistress toy is even based on the use of the sound of the pop and the tactile sensation that occurs when you press the bubble. PopPack decided to use the air bubble principle to develop a completely new principle for opening a wide variety of packages - EasyPop.
Probably every mother in the world has faced this problem: how to protect a curious baby from a sample of washing powders, gels, and various cleaning products. And the issue of greening packaging, which many manufacturers, including household chemicals, have now begun to strive for, did not solve this problem in any way. The first and rather significant step in this direction was taken by Smurfit Kappa.